Chemistry - Periodic Table at Chemicool

Thursday, August 16, 2007

QUANTUM PHYSICS: QUARKS

In this artist's representation of a particle collision, a proton and antiproton collide at nearly the speed of light, producing a top quark and anitquark. Within a tiny fraction of a second, these two heavy, unstable particles decay into lighter particles. The decay chain can produce bursts of light particles that are observed as jets.


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